Coffee Break

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1 Quicker (6) 4 Second sign of the zodiac (6) 8 Young eel (5) 9 Large tent (7) 10 Nuts from a horse chestnut tree (7) 11 Helped (5) 12 Polar region (9) 17 Fire-raising (5) 19 Long pillow (7) 21 Long-necked animal (7) 22 Satirical imitation (5) 23 Small wave (6) 24 Dried plums (6) 1 European language (6) 2 African grassland (7) 3 Eagle’s nest (5) 5 Side by side (7) 6 Circular (5) 7 Not tottering or wobbling (6) 9 Wretched (9) 13 Melodious (7) 14 Felled (3,4) 15 Animal at home in a sett (6) 16 Moves aimlessly (6) 18 Thick sweet sticky liquid (5) 20 Defeated contestant (5)

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Quiz

1. Which two cities provide the setting for Charles Dickens’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’?

2. What are the names of the three ‘Darling’ children in J.M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’?

3. Which book of the New Testament comes after the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? 4. In which century was the Florentine painter known as Sandro Botticelli born?

5. Which cartoon animal is owned by Jon Arbuckle? 6. In ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams, which character chose his name because “when he first arrived fifteen years ago, the minimal research he had done had suggested to him…” that it would be “… nicely inconspicuous”? 7. Who wrote the 1936 novel ‘Gone with the Wind’, on which the 1939 film of the same name was based?

8. Which Shakespearean play features the characters of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia? 9. What is the first name of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter books? 10. A Banksy painting of ‘Girl with Balloon’ self-shredded after selling at action in October. Where did this take place?